Comments on: Pieces of a whole

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:44:40 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you for your 5K recap. I’m running my first in – oh 29 years on Sunday. Baby girl is almost 10 months old, so I’ve got no excuses. Except that I don’t want to. And it may be cold. And I’m going to look a fool next to the people who actually like to run. And I kind of hurt my foot. And I’m not in as good of shape as I wanted to be.

I tell myself these things EVERYDAY before I go run. Then I run the 3 miles anyway. Sunday is my baseline time, there is another 5K the weekend after my daughter’s 1st birthday. I’m hoping to see significant improvement in a)My attitude toward running, b)my body and c) my time!

By: Swistle

Swistle — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:47:42 +0000

Oh totally. A bad afternoon and I’m like, “Not only do I NO LONGER HAVE ANY BABY FEVER AT ALL, but I CAN’T BELIEVE I HAD ANY BABIES AT ALL OR THAT ANYONE EVER HAS.”

By: Emme

Emme — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:21:55 +0000

Running and biking both gave me the sanity to make it thru the daily struggle of parenting 3 boys alone. Now they are all teenagers and I am still running and cycling – it’s the best!

By: Korinna

Korinna — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:25:23 +0000

I practically chew my nails down to nubbins and am working a stomach gripped with fear when mealtime approaches and we’re in the throws of the cough-barfspray effects of a cold.

I’ve taken to draping us and the surrounding furniture in a ginormous beachtowel should everything come flying back up.

What a horrible state of things.

Am glad to know, though, that you did actually come BACK home after your 5K. Instead of just continuing to run OUT of town.

By: Jonniker. » Vacation

Jonniker. » Vacation — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:08:58 +0000

[...] turn around. And then they turn around again, and you’re low again. Sundry summed it up here, but it’s so true. I was all hand-wringy and weepy yesterday about something (Sam’s [...]

By: k-stin

k-stin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:18:21 +0000

What kind of bikes did you get? I want to get a new one and yours looks great!

By: GingerB

GingerB — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:54:41 +0000

Sorry about the body fluids. We had the double ear infection too, and seemed to have popped a drum this weekend, which I don’t understand, after five days of antibiotics, but who am I to understand a 9 month old? Who? Nobody!!

Well done on the 5K, that rocks!

By: Anna A

Anna A — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:23:39 +0000

Congrats on surviving the weekend! My husband and I are biking regularly (I was somehow tricked into doing the STP) and honestly, it’s by far my favorite form of exercise. So much more to see/explore in an hour of cycling than an hour of running. Have fun!

By: victoria

victoria — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:36:54 +0000

I really, really like your writing. When you write about highs and lows experienced so lcosely together, I wonder, How do you think sobriety has affected your experience of your emotions? Do you think you experience emotional highs and lows with more intensity and clarity than when you were getting sedated regularly, or do you feel generally calmer and more mellow? Has your tolerance for frustration changed?

I guess it’s kind of hard for you to compare, since your sobriety coincided with a much BIGGER change in your life: becoming a parent, but when I read about your highs-and-lows weekend I just thought I would mention this as a possible topic.

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:21:33 +0000

Thanks for making me feel normal… My son had roseola & a double ear infection last summer. We ended up in the ER for dehydration. So not fun. Every time we’re holed up in the house (or ER) for sick-kid-fun it reminds me of the stage of grieving where you feel that the outside world has either stopped completely or should be in the same hellish state that you’re in. There’s no way it can be functioning like normal, right? :) Before having a child, I always thought a sick-kid at home was like you see on TV – lay around & watch TV all day, eat soup, etc. Not so much.